700 tots get free circumcision

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    SAMAL, Bataan- The heavy rains did not deter 700 young boys from the towns of Samal and Hermosa in Bataan in availing themselves of the two-day free circumcision conducted Saturday and Sunday in makeshift operating tables in conference rooms of school buildings.

    Accompanied by their parents, the youngsters aged 10 to 13 after registration fell in line along the hall of the school while waiting for their numbers to be called.

    The children registered different moods while being operated on by doctors, mostly young women from the Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital in Manila and some local physicians. Some boys covered their faces with handkerchiefs or hands while unashamedly crying and softly shouting “aray”.

    Some tried to forcefully smile as the lady doctors and assistants comforted them in the few minutes of operation. After the circumcision, the “new young men” were all smiles some saying “hindi masakit” or “kaunti lang ang sakit” as they held their pants away from their body.

    Congresswoman Herminia Roman said the project they have conducted since the start of the three-year term of husband former Rep. Tony Roman until her present first year term has circumcised more than 10,000 young boys.

    “We will do this every summer to help parents knowing that the cost of circumcision has become expensive. Aside from the free operation, we also give the kids free antibiotics and anti-pain medicines,” the lawmaker from Bataan’s First District explained.


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